Counsel #19 — Break The Slumber

Picture: Counsel #19 — Break The SlumberCWe 29.1

All doctors recommend that each person should get between 6-8 hours of sleep each night regardless of age, race, or gender. Medical professionals realize that our bodies, specifically our brains, can’t function correctly when we’re tired. Just as a doctor knows what’s best for our physical health, God knows what’s best for our spiritual health: staying connected to Him through His Spirit to avoid spiritual sleepiness.CWe 29.2

To be spiritually asleep means to be disconnected or indifferent to your faith and relationship with God. If you are spiritually sleepy, what you need is the oil of God’s Holy Spirit!^{[30]See story in Matthew 25:1-13} Ask God specifically to give you His Holy Spirit. It’s the Spirit that not only comforts us with a sense of God’s presence, He also gives us the gift of repentance and the strength to turn from our sins and overcome Satan’s myriad temptations. When we are lacking the Spirit, we become spiritually complacent and create an opening for the devil to work.CWe 29.3

The good news is that spiritual sleepiness need not be permanent. Recognizing it is the first step to renewal, so stop right now and reignite your faith by His Spirit!^{[31]https://www.croydonadventist.org/snooze-you-lose/}CWe 29.4

“But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.” Isaiah 59:2 NIVCWe 29.5

“The watchmen must be wide awake, men who will not slumber at their post of duty, day nor night.” Ellen White in Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 186CWe 29.6

Reflect: Are you spiritually asleep?CWe 29.7